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An AI automation agency builds custom software systems that take repetitive business tasks off people. Instead of selling you a product, it audits how work actually moves through your business, then wires your existing tools together — CRM, email, phone, accounting, forms — so routine work happens without a human doing it. Typical targets are data entry, lead follow-up, invoice processing, appointment booking, phone answering, and reporting. The distinction from a traditional software agency is that these systems use AI to handle unstructured input: reading a messy invoice, understanding what an email is asking for, or holding a natural phone conversation.

Our prices are published. The AI Front Desk — an AI receptionist with missed-call text-back, speed-to-lead follow-up and calendar booking, fully managed — is $5,000 setup plus $1,500 a month. SEO & AI Search Visibility is $2,500 setup plus $3,000 a month. Database Reactivation is $5,000 per campaign, with performance pricing available on qualifying lists. A typical Custom AI Systems build is $25,000, fixed-bid. The free 30-minute audit fixes scope, and the final number, before you commit to anything.

For context: a human receptionist runs about $3,100 a month at the BLS median wage before taxes and benefits [7], and a full-time data-entry keyer $39,850 a year [8]. The systems replace measurable payroll, which is why the math tends to be short.

The AI Front Desk is DoubleTime AI's core service: an AI receptionist that answers your business line on the first ring, around the clock, qualifies the caller, answers business questions, and books appointments into your real calendar. Around it we wire the rest of the intake loop — calls that slip through get an instant text-back, new web leads get a reply in seconds rather than the 42-hour average [2], every contact is logged to your CRM, and you get a text summary of anything needing a human. It installs on the phone number and tools you already use, and it costs $5,000 to set up plus $1,500 a month, managed.

Database reactivation is a campaign that mines the lead list you already own — old quote requests, unclosed estimates, past customers — and re-opens those conversations by SMS, with an AI handling the back-and-forth and booking anyone ready to move onto your calendar. It needs no ad spend, because the demand was already paid for the first time; it just went cold when nobody followed up, which happens more than most owners think — Harvard Business Review found 23% of companies never respond to a web lead at all [2]. We charge $5,000 per campaign, or performance pricing per booked appointment on qualifying lists. It is usually the fastest way to test what working with us feels like.

Because "book a call to find out" is a tax on your time, and because hidden pricing usually means the number is being fitted to the buyer rather than the work. Publishing standard prices keeps us honest about scope, lets you budget before you ever talk to us, and filters conversations to businesses the math already works for. If your scope turns out genuinely smaller than standard at the audit, the price follows the scope down — the published number is the ceiling for standard work, not a floor we negotiate up from.

Days, not months. We ship the highest-ROI automation first rather than delivering a complete roadmap six months out. A missed-call text-back system or a lead-response automation can be live within a week. A full CRM data-flow rebuild takes longer, but it goes live in working stages rather than one big launch. Nothing goes live without your approval.

No. We build on top of the tools you already run. Rip-and-replace projects fail because they ask a team to change how they work and learn new software at the same time. Your CRM, inbox, accounting system and phone stay exactly where they are — we make them talk to each other and handle the routine work automatically.

You do. Every system we build belongs to you outright — the accounts, the logic, the data, the integrations. There are no hostage systems that stop working if you stop paying us, and nothing is locked to a proprietary platform only we can access. If you want to bring it in-house or hand it to another team, you can.

Answer engine optimization is the practice of structuring a website so AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google's AI Overviews — cite it when answering a user's question. It overlaps with SEO but optimizes for a different outcome: traditional SEO competes for a ranking position a human clicks, while AEO competes to be the source an AI quotes inside its answer.

In practice that means answer-first content that states a conclusion before explaining it, comprehensive schema.org markup so machines can parse entities and relationships, clearly attributed statistics with real sources, FAQ structures matching how people phrase questions, and enough topical depth that an engine treats the site as authoritative. Generative engine optimization (GEO) describes the same discipline.

Yes, but the goal has shifted. AI answer engines are largely built on top of search indexes — they retrieve, then summarize. A site that isn't crawlable, isn't indexed, and has no authority signals doesn't get retrieved, so it can't be cited. Technical SEO fundamentals still decide whether you are eligible to appear at all.

What changes is what you optimize for after that: being the clearest, best-sourced answer to a specific question rather than the page that wins a keyword. Businesses that treat SEO and AEO as one program get both the ranking and the citation.

Not yet, and we won't invent them. DoubleTime AI launched in 2026. Every statistic on this page and in our guides is linked to a named published source you can check — not to client results we don't have. We would rather earn your case study than borrow someone else's. The free audit gives you a real read on whether automation helps you, regardless of whether you hire us.

Thirty minutes on a video call. We map where your hours actually leak — calls, inboxes, spreadsheets, chasing payments — and price that leak in dollars. You leave with a prioritized list of what we would automate first and what it's worth, whether or not you hire us. If we can't find at least 10 recoverable hours a week, we tell you that instead of selling you something.

DoubleTime AI is a remote-first US company serving small and mid-sized businesses nationwide. Because the work is systems integration and AI configuration rather than on-site installation, location doesn't constrain who we can help. We work across service businesses, professional practices, trades, e-commerce, and B2B firms — anywhere routine work is eating skilled people's time. Reach us at hello@doubletimeai.com.